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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Radiother Oncol. 2017 Jan 24;122(3):431–436. doi: 10.1016/j.radonc.2016.12.032

Table 1.

Treatment plans used to simulate radiation dose delivered to individual muscles.

Abbreviation Scan information Total dose (Gy)
T Tangent beams inclusive of the whole breast volume 50
HT High tangent beams inclusive of the whole breast volume and level I axillary nodes 50
T + SCV Tangent beams inclusive of the whole breast volume and anterior oblique beam inclusive of level III axillary nodes 50
T + SCV + AX Tangent beams inclusive of the whole breast volume and anterior oblique beam inclusive of level I-III axillary nodes 50
T + SCV + AX (DO) Tangent beams inclusive of the whole breast volume and directly opposed anterior-posterior oblique beams inclusive of level I-III axillary nodes 50